Episode 283 A Tribute To Author David Talbot And His Reminder About What The Church Committee Leaders Already Told Us

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Coup D'etat, Documentary, Government, Ruby, History, Jfk, Murder, Kennedy, Mafia, President, Oswald, Dallas, Fbi, Society & Culture, Assassination, Cia, Johnson

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A random episode that pays tribute to author David Talbot and his must have book entitled Brothers and also captures most perfectly Talbot's reminders regarding the lesson of history that the Church Committee and its members brought to us many years before...

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0:00.0	Welcome to JFK and The Enduring Secret.
0:06.3	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
0:23.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
0:26.8	Today's episode is episode 283.
0:30.7	And I just feel like doing something different this morning.
0:39.6	Normally I would pivot back into whatever the next surreal episode should be, at least in my own mind, but not this morning.
0:46.9	It's a beautiful, sunny, clear summer day where I'm at today, and I happen to be on a lake.
0:53.6	It's gorgeous. And the setting is really inspiring me to do a little something different for you. Well, I just finished my second
0:56.2	cup of morning coffee as I normally do, trying to be thoughtful about what the rest of the day
1:01.6	looks like. And I picked up one of my favorite JFK assassination research books from the library of
1:07.5	books I carry around with me. And it's the book Brothers by David Talbot.
1:12.8	Many of you know that David Talbot suffered a very debilitating stroke just about a year ago.
1:18.6	It was chronicled on the Assassination Archives and Research Center website, among other places.
1:24.8	David is a treasure to the JFK Assass research community, and there is no doubt that
1:30.4	his book, Brothers, should be a core reading for anyone who is seriously interested in this topic.
1:37.6	Well, I knew there was something in the book that I had begun thinking about, and as I picked the book up,
1:42.5	and as it happens often, you open a physical book to
1:46.3	a random page. And I just happened to open his book to chapter nine entitled Truth and Reconciliation.
1:54.0	And for whatever reason, I was drawn to the title, distracted at least momentarily from the item
1:59.4	that I was originally in need of trying to research.
2:03.2	And I began to read the introduction to that chapter. And I thought to myself as a tribute to David
2:09.5	and as a reminder of how important this period of time is right now when we have an additional
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